With the chief of the air force in the cockpit until the very end, obviously busting minimums was done with (at the very least) the implicit permission of the highest authority, if not at the request of the higest authority. Even if the "buck stops" with the captain, he was under immense pressure with the chief of the airforce behind his back. The structure of military aviation in Poland is fundamentally flawed, and this is not the first crash to prove it. Hopefully the price of this one was high enough to warrant fundamental changes. There is already talk of leasing two LOT Embraer 175's for government use in the near future, with LOT crews.